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Jamie Kah will not face any penalties after footage of the star jockey cutting lines of white powder in her home in June was widely circulated.
The Victorian Racing Tribunal determined on Friday that while Kah had behaved recklessly on the night she was filmed with an illegal substance, she could not be charged for bringing the sport into disrepute as the jockey did not know she was being filmed.
Star Melbourne jockey Jamie Kah has had her case dismissedCredit: Twitter
Stewards charged both Kah and stable hand Ruby McIntyre with conduct prejudicial to racing after McIntyre recorded and circulated a six-second video, which showed Kah separating lines of white powder on a kitchen plate with an ID card. Still shots of the video were published in the media six days later.
McIntyre was found guilty, with a penalty to be determined by the tribunal at a later date.
In handing down the decision, tribunal judge John Bowman said Kah’s behaviour was “immature, irresponsible, and at least bordering on reckless”.
He added: “The question is whether that behaviour, that recklessness, is sufficient to comfortably satisfy us there’s been a breach [of the rules] … we are not so satisfied.”
The three-person tribunal came to that decision for two keys reasons. Firstly, Kah did not know the video had been taken, and secondly that she did not know the video had been circulated until it was published in the media.
“We are of the opinion the charge to be dismissed, and that is the order we make,” the judge concluded.
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